Practice of Hainan brown sugar glutinous rice cake

Sweet, soft, glutinous brown sugar cake, full of Hainan flavor in one bite.

I remember when I was a child, brown sugar rice cakes were only delicious during the Chinese New Year holidays. Although the raw materials are very cheap, they are all made by hand, and the practice is also very particular. Brown sugar rice cakes are steamed with glutinous rice flour and brown sugar. This is soft, sticky and q-bomb. The most attractive thing is the unique fragrance of brown sugar, which is sweet but not greasy.

Now there are stalls in some alleys in Hainan. Some burdened aunts and grandmothers will sell their own brown sugar cakes. Whether it is tourists from all corners of the country or local residents passing by, they can't help but buy one or two to satisfy their desires.

Actually, it takes some time to make a brown sugar cake. Cook the brown sugar with clear water, then let it cool, pour it into glutinous rice flour, stir it evenly, pour the batter into a mold and steam it in a steamer 1 hour (this is a general method, and the details may vary).

There are many ways to eat brown sugar rice cakes. Just steamed rice cakes, or bought from the market, can be eaten when cut into pieces, soft and sweet, with a long aftertaste.

Some people like to slice rice cakes overnight and fry them in oil pan, but I like to steam them with egg liquid, three times or four times, so that the fried rice cakes are crisp and sticky and delicious.

Although the brown sugar cake in Hainan is not as beautiful and gorgeous as other high-end snacks, it gives you a simple taste of Hainan people. Friends who travel to Hainan, besides the four famous dishes and seafood feast, must not forget to taste this folk delicacy.

It is such a piece of brown sugar cake that was once a rare delicacy for generations of Hainan people to eat in the New Year. Now you can often buy it in farmers' markets and other places, and you can buy one piece for 2 yuan, which is good and cheap.